28 years ago, the First Palestinian Intifada, also known as Uprising of Stones, was triggered in Jabalia Refugee Camp, in northern Gaza, starting a new stage of the Palestinian national struggle to regain the rights Israel stole decades ago.

The First Intifada began on 9 December, 1987, after an IOF truck ran over Palestinian workers, killing four in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.

During the 'Uprising of Stones' stones and Molotov Cocktails were the major Palestinian weapon.

The Intifada in numbers

Statistics show that 1,162 Palestinians, including 241 children, were killed at the hands of Israeli soldiers, and 90,000 others were injured during that intifada. Furthermore, 1,228 Palestinian houses were destroyed and 140,000 trees were uprooted from Palestinian farms. On the other hand, 160 Israelis were killed.

Israeli forces arrested 60,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, and the occupied territories of 1948.

The First Intifada came to an end as the Israeli occupation government sought a way out of the snowballing Intifada when small groups of Palestinians managed to use guns in their resistance of the occupation in reaction to Israel’s brutal escalation against unarmed civilians and stone-throwers.

Israel wanted to rule the Palestinians by proxy and hence they signed the Oslo Accords with PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993.

The Second Intifada

Seven years after the First Intifada, through which a number of Palestinian operations were carried out against Israel, the Second Intifada, also known as Al-Aqsa Intifada, broke out. On 28 September, 2000, the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, accompanied with large numbers of Israeli soldiers, defiled the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, marking the start for the Palestinian anger wave.

The Second Intifada was characterized by more clashes and more military operations from both sides.The Intifada intensified in response to more Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque and attempts to divide the Mosque temporally.

On 8 February, 2005, the Intifada came to an end as the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit was held.

The Struggle continues

In October, 2015, Al-Quds Intifada, also known as the Jerusalem Intifada, broke out in response to the Israeli rigorously determined attempts to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque temporally and spatially.

The Third Intifada was triggered as a group of Palestinian youths ambushed and killed two Israeli settlers in reaction to years of Israeli army brutality and Jewish settlers’ criminal attacks such as the barbaric burning of the Dawabshe family burning alive the parents and one year old Ali.

Until today, Israeli occupation forces slaughtered, sometimes in front of the cheering Jewish mobs, 117 Palestinians, including 25 children and 5 women.

"The First Intifada broke out in response to the Israeli continuous oppression and human rights violations. Today, history repeats itself as Palestinian youths resist the Israeli army with stones and slingshots refusing the Israeli Judaization attempts,” Hani Habib, a Palestinian political writer, commented.

Naji Shurrab, a political science professor at Al Azhar University in Gaza, said, "The Israeli violations against Palestinians intensified, pushing Palestinians to a third Intifada."

Shurrab confirmed that "reaping the fruits of this Palestinian uprising requires a national strategic plan to unite all the Palestinian political factions towards one goal."

The current wave of Palestinian resistance sends two messages: First: Israeli occupation brutality will not bring Palestinians to their knees, and Second: Palestinians will always rise against injustice until Palestine is free.

Member of Hamas's political bureau Ezzat al-Resheq has called on leaders of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) convening on Wednesday in the Saudi capital Riyadh to support al-Quds intifada (uprising).

"There is no doubt that the GCC summit is being held under extremely complicated regional and international conditions, and more than two month after the start of al-Quds intifada, where the occupation is still committing its violations against the Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinians, so we hope that this summit will help the Palestinians in their defense of their holy sites and rights," Resheq stated in press remarks.

"We also hope that the GCC states will have a position against the unjust blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for about one decade because it is an unjustified siege," he added.

Leaders of the GCC countries are gathering in Riyadh on Wednesday to discuss key regional and international issues, most importantly, the fight against terrorism, the economic cooperation and the situation in Yemen, Syria, Palestine and other neighboring states.

The army continues its violations against the journalists' crews with both live fire and rubber-coated metal bullets, tear gas and stun grenades, physical assaults and detentions.

All these followed methods aiming to constrict the media coverage of the Israeli crimes against Palestinians.

Al Ray reported that, according to the records, last month witnessed a peak in Israeli violations against journalists, breaching articles of international humanitarian law which uphold the freedom of expression.

The records pointed out that the number of injuries among journalists from live and rubber bullets, tear gas, and beatings amounted to 21 cases.

It also documented 11 kidnappings and 17 violations against media institutions.

"The Intifada Youth Coalition - Palestine" called for the continuation, support and development of the Jerusalem intifada, pointing out that salvation lies in uniting to fight the Israeli occupier and to use all forms of resistance against it.

Fadi Sheikh Yusuf, member of the Intifada Youth Coalition, revealed the coalition's intention to issue a black list of the names of anyone who dares to hinder the intifada or is working to fight it, and said: "We are aware that there are regional and Palestinian attempts to circumvent, contain and abort the Jerusalem intifada."

These statements were delivered during the first conference of the Intifada Youth Coalition, which was held in Gaza on Tuesday with the participation of hundreds of young people, the leaders of the Palestinian factions, deputies and notables.

Sheikh Yusuf said that the Jerusalem intifada united the Palestinian people, pointing out that the young people's intifada happened as a result of the repressive measures of the Israeli occupation in al-Aqsa Mosque.

“The heroic Palestinian people in general and young Palestinians in particular revolted in a popular intifada in the West Bank and Jerusalem against the occupation” using all available means of resistance.

He noted that the people of the Gaza Strip participated also in the event, as they went out to the Strip’s borders in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians in the West Bank. He affirmed that Gaza will not hesitate in participating in the battle to defend al-Aqsa and Jerusalem.

He stressed that there will never be coexistence with the Israeli occupation and the settlements, adding, “We say to the Israeli enemy, who acknowledged its inability to deter the intifada, that the intifada will continue until achieving its objectives, and that the blood of young Palestinians is the fuel of the intifada that we promised to maintain and protect."

The member of the Intifada Youth Coalition, Sheikh Yusuf, pointed out that the “Israeli enemy” had (mistakenly) believed that young people would allow it to pass its schemes. He called on the factions to engage strongly in the Jerusalem intifada and put pressure on the Israeli occupation politically, legally and internationally by all means.

He also called on the factions to forge national unity in support of the Jerusalem intifada, end the internal division, rehabilitate the Palestinian national project, and preserve the Jerusalem uprising's achievements.

He urged the Palestinian government and the presidency to adopt the Jerusalem Intifada, to take actions to isolate Israel at the international arena, to activate the Palestinian file at the ICC and to support the popular uprising in the West Bank, stressing the need for the continuation and development of the Jerusalem Intifada to highlight the rights of the Palestinian people and the need to stand by them as well as the need to stop settlement activity and the Israeli repeated violations of al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem.

The intifada achievements

In his turn, Khaled al-Batesh, a leader of the Islamic Jihad, confirmed in his speech on behalf of the national and Islamic forces, that the intifada must continue. "The achievements of the intifada will never be recorded without a number of martyrs and sacrifices, in the forefront of these achievements particularly the liberation of the West Bank to be the first step toward restoring all of Palestine", he added.

Batesh affirmed that the Jerusalem Intifada, which is still in its beginning, will continue, and that the Palestinian people have to pay the tax of Jihad and resistance. "Today, we talk about sacrifices, but after a year we will talk about the achievements."

He stressed that the intifada is the only way to restore al-Aqsa Mosque and occupied Jerusalem and to the liberation of all Palestine, pointing out that the young Palestinians launched the intifada against the Israeli occupier to express their rejection of the Judaization schemes of Jerusalem and the desecration of al-Aqsa and the insults of the Palestinian women."

Batesh called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to adopt the option of the intifada as a national project and a mechanism of liberation from the Israeli occupation, noting that this requires removal of all obstacles before the young people involved in the uprising to ensure its continuation.

Intifada and the law

For his part, the human rights activist, Salah Abdel Ati, described the international legal dimension of the Jerusalem intifada, noting that resistance in all its forms is not only a right but a duty of the Palestinian people living under the Israeli occupation.

He said: "The intifada was launched at a sensitive moment in the history of our people at a time when everyone thought that the terrorist Israeli government is able to overshadow the Palestinian cause."

He pointed out that the international solidarity events with the Palestinians widened, adding that the intifada revealed the crimes of the Israeli occupation mainly extrajudicial killing, large-scale arrests (2400 so far half of them children) including wounded citizens, the Judaization of Jerusalem, the division of al-Aqsa Mosque, and the continuation of settlement activity.

He noted that the Israeli occupation did not commit crimes against the living Palestinians only, but it also committed collective punishment by holding the bodies of 23 citizens killed by Israeli gunfire, and still is holding the bodies of 19 martyrs in the three attacks on Gaza, and more than 285 bodies of Palestinian martyrs in the so-called cemetery of numbers in a clear violation of the provisions of International Humanitarian Law (IHL).

Abdel-Ati identified the limits indicated by the international humanitarian law regarding forms of resistance, he said: "We are the victims of this occupation, and the resistance is not only a right to the Palestinian people but a duty, and we exercise this right which is guaranteed by international human rights charters."

He noted that the Court of Justice in The Hague said that "Israel might not invoke the principle of self-defense to confront the occupied Palestinian people."

Factors for continuation of the intifada

Abdel-Ati expressed his real fear of Palestinian, European and Arab attempts and intentions to stop the intifada, stressing that the factors of the continuation of the Jerusalem intifada is to identify a target and a leadership and provide it with all forms of resistance and not to rush the results.

He also championed wide media coverage to expose the Israeli occupation policies and crimes and to refute Israeli allegations against the Palestinian people and their intifada.

Abdel-Ati warned of the use of the intifada to bargain the rights of the Palestinian people.

In the same context, he called on the National Committee responsible for the Palestinian file at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take the shortest measures possible to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its crimes committed against Palestinian civilians.

In conclusion, Abdel-Ati demanded a national strategy that exceeds the previous state of affairs and all commitments of the PA to Oslo. He also proposed formation of a new national vision and a project, which requires the convening of the unified leadership of the Palestinian factions.

A solidarity convoy was launched by the Moroccan Commission to Support the Nation’s Causes on December 6 and 7 as part of intents to prop up Morocco’s support for the holy al-Aqsa Mosque and the anti-occupation Jerusalem Intifada.

The commission chairman, Abdul Samad Fathi, warned of the threats overwhelming the al-Aqsa Mosque from all directions and Israel’s relentless attempts to desecrate it and divide it both spatially and temporally.

Fathi stressed the historical importance of Occupied Jerusalem and its Islamic places of worship for the Moroccan communities across all times and places.

He called on for intensifying pro-Palestine campaigns and solidarity events.

A series of pictures featured in an exhibition staged by the commission on the horrendous Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, including field executions, mass-genocides, and cold-blooded slaughter of women and children.

The dolls, according to the Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post, were dressed in a style popular among Palestinian anti-occupation protesters, with a white and black checkered Kuffiyeh, or scarf, wrapped around the head and face, and another scarf in the Palestinian flag colors of red, green and white draped around the neck.

On the neck scarf is a picture of Dome of the Rock, located on the holy al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem, and the slogans, "Jerusalem is ours" and "Jerusalem, here we come," inscribed in Arabic. The right hand of the doll is gripping a stone.

The dolls, which originated in the United Arab Emirates, were spotted by the occupation authorities at Haifa customs and kept for further investigation, according to the Israeli news outlets.

Ofir Gendelman, an Israeli government spokesman, claimed that the toys fit with a trend of incitement to violence in some Palestinian school lessons and television programs.

The consignment of dolls arrived in the thick of a wave of violence which has seen 117 Palestinians, including 25 children and five girls, killed and thousands more wounded by the Israeli occupation army and terrorists since early October month.

Palestinian crowds in Bethlehem at noon Tuesday bade farewell to the Palestinian martyr Malek Shaheen, 19, who was killed by Israeli forces in clashes in al-Dehaishe refugee camp in the city.

The martyr’s father said, in a statement, that he is proud of his martyr son who is the only son he got. He died of his wounds sustained after being shot by an Israeli sniper who shot him with a dumdum bullet in the head.

Clashes with Israeli forces erupted in the wake of the martyr’s funeral near the northern entrance of Bethlehem city. Earlier on Tuesday, commercial shops in Bethlehem were closed in mourning for the martyr.

The martyrdom of Shaheen brought the number of Palestinian martyrs who have been killed since the beginning of Jerusalem Intifada, on October the first, to 117 including 25 minors and 5 women.

Wasel Abu Yusuf, member of the PLO executive committee, said the international quartet is fruitless and biased towards Israel.

In a statement on Tuesday, Abu Yusuf pointed out that the cancellation of the quartet’s visit to Palestine goes in line with the American bias to Israel.

The PLO official said “We do not count on the quartet and we are seeking to join international institutions and the UN Security Council in order to end the Israeli occupation and establish the independent State of Palestine.”

The Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Riyad al-Malki, declared that the quartet’s delegation postponed its visit, which was planned this week, to the Palestinian territories for unclear reasons.

The quartet was established in 2002 as an international committee concerned with the Israeli-Arab conflict. It represents the United States of America, Russia, United Nations and the European Union.

Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Leuven said on Monday “In accordance with the international law, stabbing is not considered as terrorism”.

Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper stated on Tuesday that Leuven’s statement came in a press conference commenting on the latest statements of Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs on Israeli field executions without trials against Palestinians who conduct stabbing operations.

The Israeli newspaper revealed that Leuven, later on, said, “The stabbing is terrorism, but it is not known whether the stabbers belong to terrorist groups”.

Leuven’s statements are part of "the war of statements" between Israeli and Swedish officials after Sweden had declared its recognition of the State of Palestine.

In a previous statement, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs connected the terrorist actions that took place in Paris to a claimed state of desperation among the Palestinian youths.

Since October the first, Palestinian territories have been witnessing clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces due to the continuation of Israeli violations against the Aqsa Mosque.

Once it fell to politicians and diplomats to solve international conflicts. Now, according to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, responsibility lies with social media.

Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, headed off to Silicon Valley to meet senior executives at Google and its subsidiary YouTube late last month. Her task was to persuade them that, for the sake of peace, they must censor the growing number of Palestinian videos posted on YouTube.

Netanyahu claims these videos spur other Palestinians to carry out attacks, exemplified by the weeks of stabbings and car rammings against Israeli soldiers and civilians.

After the meeting, the foreign ministry issued a press release claiming Google had joined Israel’s “war against incitement”, and would establish a “joint apparatus” to prevent the posting of “inflammatory” videos. Google denied last week that any agreement was reached.

On other fronts of this so-called war, the Israeli army has shut down three West Bank radio stations, accusing them of fomenting unrest. And inside Israel, officials have shut a newspaper and a separate website catering to Israel’s large Palestinian minority.

Meanwhile, Palestinians, including children, are being arrested over their Facebook posts. Others accused by Netanyahu of spreading terror-like incitement include Hamas, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian education system, Palestinian parties in Israel’s parliament and human rights organisations.

There is a deep cynicism at work here.

True, Palestinians are enraged by footage showing their compatriots shot or executed by Israelis, often after they have been disarmed or cornered, or – in the case of two teenage girls last month – badly injured.

But in many cases such videos are posted not by Palestinians but by ordinary Israelis or their government as proof of a supposed Palestinian “barbarism”.

Most Palestinian videos are simply a record of their bitter experiences of occupation at the hands of soldiers and settlers. It is these experiences, not the videos, that drive Palestinians to breaking point.

A “war on incitement” waged through YouTube and Facebook won’t change Palestinian suffering. But it may, Netanyahu presumably hopes, conceal Israel’s brutality from the eyes of the world.

Unrest has escalated of late not because of social media but because Palestinians, faced with an Israeli government implacably opposed to ending the occupation, are losing all hope.

Israel’s generals have warned Netanyahu that without a diplomatic process there will be no end to the attacks. Desperate to obscure this obvious truth, the Israeli right needs to blame everything apart from its own uncompromising ideology.

Israel’s battle against “incitement” is not just meant to deflect attention from the right’s failing policies. It is also a form of incitement itself, and it is no surprise the campaign is led by two masters of provocation: Netanyahu and Hotovely.

Israel has accused Palestinians of incitement for suggesting that Al Aqsa, the much-revered mosque in Jerusalem, is under threat, yet Hotovely recently said her “dream” was to see the Israeli flag flying at Al Aqsa.

There was a reminder, too, of Netanyahu’s own dismal record. An investigation was dropped last month against the prime minister over his warnings, using Israeli terminology for a military emergency, that Palestinian citizens were coming out “in droves” to vote in March’s general election.

A consequence of government-inspired incitement is an ever uglier climate. In many towns, crowds calling “death to the Arabs” barely raise an eyebrow any more.

The justice minister, Ayelet Shaked, has backed a bill to stigmatise Israeli human-rights groups that receive foreign, mostly European, funding. And the culture minister, Miri Regev, demanded that films showing in an Israeli festival about the Nakba, the Palestinians’ mass dispossession in 1948, be vetted for “incitement” and the cinemas showing them threatened with defunding.

Public meetings with groups such as Breaking the Silence, Israeli army veterans who want to shed light on the occupation, are being cancelled under police pressure.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, is giving a free hand to far right news sites as they make false and pernicious claims.

One, Newsdesk Israel, took a four-year-old video of Palestinians revelling at their acceptance into the United Nations and repackaged it as footage of Palestinians celebrating ISIL’s massacres in Paris. Another fabricated report suggested Palestinian citizens were proselytising for ISIL by blasting its songs on their car stereos.

In fact, no target seems too big to avoid the Israeli right’s defamation – not even Europe, Israel’s largest trading partner.

Israeli politicians have misrepresented as a full-blown boycott the EU’s recent tepid move to label products from illegal West Bank settlements and thereby deny them special customs exemptions reserved for Israeli products. The right argues Israel is being uniquely punished by Europe, when in truth the EU has enforced economic sanctions, not just labelling, against 36 countries.

Incitement does indeed pose a threat to the future of Israelis and Palestinians. But it is to be found in the falsehoods promoted by Netanyahu and his ministers, not the bitter truths being posted on YouTube.

– Jonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.

Members of Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) stressed on Tuesday the need to achieve a real national unity in support of Jerusalem Intifada, calling on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to join the ongoing upraising.

During a meeting organized by the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, the MPs called for holding a parliamentary session that brings together Gaza and West Bank’s MPs in support of Jerusalem Intifada.

The participants at the meeting also called on regional and international parliaments to stand behind the Palestinian cause and uprising and to protect occupied Jerusalem from Israeli Judaization schemes and war crimes.

They also called on Palestinian premier Rami al-Hamdallah to resign and to form a real unity government that would implement the terms of the Cairo agreement and organize presidential and legislative elections.

The MPs have also stressed the need for documenting Israeli war crimes and to table them with the International Criminal Court, demanding, at the same time, a halt to the security coordination between Israeli and PA forces.

They also hailed Palestinian women’s role and sacrifices made in support of the ongoing Jerusalem Intifada and in defense of al-Aqsa Mosque.

By the end of the meeting, the PLC members shed light on media outlets’ role in supporting and defending Palestinian rights and Intifada.

A Palestinian physician in Bethlehem said, Tuesday, that the Israeli bullet that killed the teen in the Deheishe refugee camp, in Bethlehem, is a new type of internationally banned hollow-point bullets, which expand upon impact.

Journalist Nasser Lahham, the head of the Palestine office of the al-Mayadeen Satellite News Channel, and the editor-in-chief of Maan News Agency, said one of the surgeons in Beit Jala Governmental Hospital has informed him that Malek Akram Shahin, 18, was shot in the head, with a new type of hollow-bullets.

The surgeon said that the bullet penetrated Malek’s skull, has detonated into more than 300 smaller pieces, causing numerous fractures to his skull and extensive brain damage.

He also stated the bullet seems to be advanced type of hollow rounds the army is using, even more dangerous than the Dumdum illegal rounds, which detonate upon impact.

Such bullets can cause damage to an aircraft, armored vehicles, and are designed to maximize tissue damage, bones, blood loss and shock.

Hollow bullets have been prohibited since The Hague Convention of 1899, Declaration III, that came as a continuance of the Sr. Petersburg, which banned the use of all exploding rounds.

However, the Israeli army has been frequently using those types of rounds against Palestinian civilians, including in the First Intifada of 1987.

Back in October, surgeons in the Hadassah Israeli Hospital in Jerusalem amputated the leg of child detainee, Issa Adnan Abdul-Mo’ty, 13 years of age, after various surgeries failed to save his right leg. He was also shot with a Dumdum bullet.

Earlier in November, detainee, Issa Jalal Sharawna, 17 years old, had his leg amputated, in Assaf HaRofeh Israeli hospital, as a result of severe injuries he sustained in early October, after he was shot by Israeli settlers.

Reports were released on Monday on Israeli facilities to arm settlers under the pretext of self-defense.

The Yisrael Hume newspaper said Israel’s internal security minister Gilad Erdan approved allowing security officers and body guards to hold arms at all times and in all places.

Israel’s weapons law, which was amended in 2013, ruled for allowing security guards to hold arms only during working hours.

Recently the Israeli government alleviated restrictions on the armament of settlers as part of its intents to thwart anti-occupation activism in the occupied West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Center for the Study of Israeli-Palestinian affairs documented 282 attacks carried out by Israeli settlers against the Palestinians since the outbreak of the Jerusalem Intifada, in early October.

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) slammed on Monday Israel’s mounting aggressions on the holy al-Aqsa Mosque and the peaceful Muslim congregation, expressing its unyielding support for the male and female sit-inners maintaining vigil at the al-Aqsa.

A statement by the IUMS condemned the cold-blooded field executions carried out by the Israeli occupation army against Palestinian women and children.

The IUMS also spoke out against the arbitrary home demolitions and attacks on the families of Palestinian anti-occupation prisoners’ and activists.

The union expressed its rejection of Israel’s ban on the Islamic movement in 1948 Occupied Palestine and the confiscation of its properties.

The union called for mass support for the Palestinian people and condemnation of Israeli crimes.

The group further slammed the Israeli siege on Gaza, dubbing it a crime against humanity and an infringement on Palestinians rights to live in dignity

The IUMS called on the Palestinian factions to pool resources and work on the establishment of unified institutions both nationwide and overseas.

In a related context, the IUMS denounced the conspiracies being currently weaved against the Muslim nation, saying they rather make part of a preplanned plan of mass-genocide, and called for restoring Muslims’ rights to decide on their fate.

“We call on everybody to avoid sectarian and religious conflicts… and to rather unite to face the shared challenges confronting the nation, most notably the Israeli occupation,” member of the IUMS, Dr. Muhsen Abdul Hameed, told the Quds Press.

Political bureau head of Hamas Khaled Mishaal joined, meanwhile, a workshop organized by the IUMS on the sidelines of the third meeting of the fourth session of the IUMS’s Board of Trustees.

Mishaal hailed the world scholars, saying they are always in the lead of the Palestinian national struggle.

Israeli justice minister Ayelet Shaked has proposed a new law allowing the government to seize homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out stabbing or car-ramming attacks in addition to demolishing them.

According to Maariv newspaper on Monday, Shaked submitted a bill in this regard to the Israeli ministerial committee for legislation in order to strengthen Israel's ability to fight Palestinian vehicular and stabbing attacks in particular.

The justice minister explained that her bill, if approved, would expand the powers of the security authorities and further deter Palestinians from attacking Israelis.

Ayelet Shaked, a member of the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party, had previously introduced and supported several bills targeting the Palestinians, including one calling for issuing actual prison verdicts against detained children.

Dozens of Palestinians from Occupied Jerusalem as well as the 1948 Occupied Palestine on Monday visited the Aqsa Mosque to maintain vigil inside it and to defend the Muslims’ holy site in face of Israeli settlers’ incursions.

Israeli policemen barred dozens of women, whose names are listed in the blacklist, from entering the Aqsa Mosque and confiscated the IDs of those who entered the holy site.

The policemen rounded up the Jerusalemite Nizam Abu Rumouz at the Hetta gate, took him to the police station of al-Asbat gate and searched him before letting him go.

Special police forces secured the incursion of 22 Jewish settlers into the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque amid confrontation of Muslim sit-inners.

Some worshipers from 1948 Occupied Palestine revealed that Israeli policemen deliberately stop and question visitors, who come from outside of Jerusalem, about their home addresses and the transportation they use to get to Jerusalem.

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday reiterated his support for the idea of giving the Palestinians a demilitarized state in exchange for their recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.

Addressing the Saban Forum in Washington Sunday through a video call, Netanyahu said that the only possible solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict would be to have the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

"The root cause of the conflict with the Palestinians is their refusal to recognize the Jewish state… Settlements and territory are an issue to be resolved, but they are not the core of the conflict."

25 Palestinian children were killed since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada on October 1, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Monday.

During the same reported period, 530 children were injured including 311 with live shots and 143 with rubber bullets. 50 others suffered different injuries after being subjected to brutal attack at the hands of Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).

As a whole, 115 Palestinians were shot and killed since October 1 including 25 children and five women.

As Jerusalem Intifada enters its third month, Israel continues to target Palestinian children and minors in total disregard to international human rights conventions.